Softball Headline

Two
members of the No. 2/2 University of Florida softball team earned the
Southeastern Conference’s weekly player honors for their outstanding play last
week. Junior left fielder Francesca Enea (Woodland Hills, Calif.) was named SEC Player of the Week while sophomore right-hander Stephanie
Brombacher (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) earned SEC Pitcher of the Week.

Enea
turned in phenomenal numbers in last week’s six games to garner the Player of
the Week honors. In 18 at bats, the junior recorded a team-high 11 hits,
including two doubles and three home runs. Two of her three homers were grand
slams as she nailed the bases-loaded long balls on Feb. 14 against Texas Tech
and then again versus South Alabama in the 2009 Lipton Invitational. She
became the first player in UF history to tally two grand slams in the same
day. The left fielder increased her career grand slam total to four and her
overall home run total to 27.

Enea also
recorded 18 of her team-leading 21 RBI in the six-game stand, notching five
each in the Texas Tech and South Alabama games, which tied a career high and
tied for third as a Florida single-game record. In nine short games, Enea has
moved four spots up on UF’s career RBI list, as she currently stands in seventh
with 107.

Brombacher
registered four quality appearances last week, all highlighted by a no-hitter.
The sophomore pitched 5.0 scoreless innings against Coastal Carolina on Feb. 13
without allowing a hit and only one walk to record her first career
no-hitter. She is the first UF pitcher to accomplish the feat since Lindsey
Littlejohn in 2006. She also tied a career-high nine strikeouts in the same
game.

The righty
went 3-0 with three shutouts last week. She has yet to allow a run to cross
the plate on her watch. In 18.0 innings, she allowed three hits, only one walk
and struck out 28. She pitched her fourth career one-hitter against South Alabama, the second of this young season. She also pitched two perfect innings of
relief against Georgia Tech on Sunday, striking out four, which equaled the
total number of K’s for the Yellow Jackets’ two pitchers over their 5.1
innings. In her 24.0 innings this season, Brombacher has only allowed four
hits and walked two.

The weekly
honors are the first for both players. Not only were the awards the earliest
in program history, they also marked the first time two Gators earned
conference weekly honors in the same week.

The Gators
hit the road to face off against their first ranked opponents of the season.
They head to Cathedral City, Calif., to play in the Cathedral City Classic from
Feb. 19 to 21. On Thursday, they take on No. 15/14 Fresno State at 6:30 p.m. (ET) and defending-national champions No. 3/6 Arizona State at 11:30 p.m.
(ET).